Critical Properties for Gelation: A Kinetic Approach
- 23 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 49 (8) , 593-595
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.49.593
Abstract
The critical behavior of the gelation of polymers is studied as a kinetic process in which only surface interactions between polymers are assumed. It is found that gelation occurs when the exponent , which characterizes the effective surface area, is greater than ½, and that the exponent , which characterizes the size distribution at the gel point, is related to by .
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